• The Harp Articulate (Public Preview)
    May 26 2023

    This is a preview of a longer installment. Subscribers can enjoy every episode in full: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thoreausleaves/subscribe May 16, 17, & 23, 1854 "This earth which is spread out like a map around me is but the lining of my in-most soul exposed." Music: "Ballerina" by Yehezkel Raz (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.)

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    2 mins
  • In Honor of Thoreau's 203rd Birthday - 12 July 2020 (Public Preview)
    May 26 2023

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    For July 12th, 2020, a reading of Thoreau's original fable about the reaches and depths of time and art, and about the spirit behind the building of a new world. Here's to "a world with full and fair proportions."

    Music: "Sails" by Rodello's Machine

    (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist)


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    1 min
  • Before a Single Green Blade (Public Preview)
    May 26 2023

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    March 29, 1853

    Henry does a little digging and discovers "a wonderful piece of chemistry."

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    2 mins
  • Dreams & Mountains (Public Preview)
    May 26 2023

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    October 29th, 1857

    Sometimes "we cannot tell what we have dreamed from what we have actually experienced."

    Music: "Spring the Promise" by Anna Yarbrough

    (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist)

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    3 mins
  • Here I Have Been These 40 Years (Public Preview)
    May 26 2023

    This is a preview of a longer installment. Subscribers can enjoy every episode in full: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thoreausleaves/subscribe November 20th, 1857 "The man who is often thinking that it is better to be somewhere else than where he is excommunicates himself." Music: "La Chica de los Grandes Ojos Negros" by ANBR (Music used courtesy of the artist through a licensing agreement with Artlist)

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    1 min
  • Some Lichenous Thoughts Still Adhere to Us (Public Preview)
    May 26 2023

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    December 29th and 31st, 1853

    Henry walks out amid the worst snowstorm in recent Concord memory, and on New Year's Eve recalls his past drunkenness.

    Snow Bunting sounds by Terje Kolaas: accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/425902

    Music: "Per Paura Che Si Rompa" by Bottega Baltazar; "The Racer" by Tristan Barton

    (All songs used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.)

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    2 mins
  • Owls, Ice, Foxes, and Flocks (Public Preview)
    May 26 2023

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    "I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder ... and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet which I could have worn."

    (from the chapter "Winter Animals" in Walden)

    MUSIC:

    "Backwards Flow (Instrumental)" by Chad Crouch, https://www.soundofpicture.com/, used by courtesy of a licensing agreement with the artist.

    "Blackbird Reverie (Instrumental)" by Chad Crouch, https://www.soundofpicture.com/, used by courtesy of a licensing agreement with the artist.

    SOUND CREDITS:

    Barred Owl: Lance A. M. Benner, XC486052. Accessible at ⁠www.xeno-canto.org/486052⁠.

    Canada Goose: Meena Haribal, XC543318. Accessible at ⁠www.xeno-canto.org/543318⁠

    Great Horned Owl: Lance A. M. Benner, XC595324. Accessible at ⁠www.xeno-canto.org/595324⁠

    Squirrel on roof: courtesy of Darius Kedros. Accessible at ⁠https://freesound.org/s/276857/⁠

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    4 mins
  • The Fact Is I Am A Mystic (Public Preview)
    May 26 2023

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    February 27 - March 15, 1853

    Henry notes the first evidence of spring, and reminds himself: "Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows."


    MUSIC: "Alsace" by Chad Crouch, https://www.soundofpicture.com/, used by courtesy of a licensing agreement with the artist.

    "Red-Wing Meditation" by Chad Crouch, https://www.soundofpicture.com/, used by courtesy of a licensing agreement with the artist.

    "Tortoise Shell" by Chad Crouch, https://www.soundofpicture.com/, used by courtesy of a licensing agreement with the artist.

    "Pink Gradient" by Chad Crouch, https://www.soundofpicture.com/, used by courtesy of a licensing agreement with the artist.

    "All the Quiet Work" by Chad Crouch, https://www.soundofpicture.com/, used by courtesy of a licensing agreement with the artist.

    SOUND CREDITS:

    Red-Shouldered Hawk: Christopher McPherson, XC602509. Accessible at ⁠www.xeno-canto.org/602509⁠

    Eastern Bluebird: Christopher McPherson, XC601010. Accessible at ⁠www.xeno-canto.org/601010

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    3 mins